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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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2. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






3. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






5. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






6. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






7. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






8. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






9. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






10. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






11. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






12. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






13. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






14. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






16. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






17. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






18. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






19. Individual Educational Plan






20. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






21. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






22. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






23. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






24. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






27. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






28. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






29. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






30. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






31. r-controlled syllable






32. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






33. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






34. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






35. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






36. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






37. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






38. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






39. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






40. Academic Language Therapy Association






41. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






42. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






44. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






45. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






46. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






47. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






48. English as a second language






49. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






50. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.